The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1887-12-16

ultra radicals it is now divided into
two apartments by strong and solid
partition that reaches from wall to
wall and from floor to ceiling. A mar
row and very heavy door allows one
person at u time to enter the rear
Feet2i aHed ffsreFeHts aanayy aanayy sudden rush or
raid by the police, and enables its inmates
to successfully withstand q siege for q
long enough time to effect an escape
through other parts of the building
The proprietor, Paul Wilzig, is man
of about 45. Medium sized, slender,
sinewy, quick and intelligent, he displays
many of the qualities which make man
a natural political leader. He is of Ger
man birth and education, but reads,
writes and speaks English admirably. He
is very popular with the more radical
Progressives, and owing to the bitter feel
ing between the two, just as unpopular
with the police. His place is practically
under police surveillance. By day it is
well patronized, the outside room, which
contains the bar, being filled by customers
of both sexes, and the inside room OR
castle being often used. At night both
bar and castle are packed with agita-
tors.
The language most frequently heard at
Wilzig's is German; next to this the pc
culiar jargon common along the eastern
frontier of Prussia and Austria and the
western frontier of Russia, in that belt of
territory where the Teutonc blends with
the Slavonic race. Anarchists of this
origin are usually brave, determined, pa
Tent and vengeful. From the brutal
militarism which has long prevailed in
the two great empires, there has been de-
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cncc to life and physical welfare, intense
antipathy to the governing classes, and
strong gregariousn ass or sociability. Next
to these come the French; then the Bo-
hemians, Hungarians and Slavs proper;
then the English, but almost no Irish,
Americans or negroes.
Nothing is further fiji rttfiief removed ffreHs the
truth than the popular belief that the
Radicals are weak and sickly men, They
are nearly all members of labor unions
and average as well as their fellow MEM
bers. The tailors and musicians are
stronger and better men physically than
the ordinary knight of the lapstone or
peripatetic band performer.
The wood and metal workers are mus
cular, fine looking men, who will compare
favorably with the artisans of any in
tlustry in the city. The frequenters of
Wilzig,s and the visitors to the castle, so
far as health, strength and activity are
concerned, are superior to an equal num-
ber of militia, and probably of even the
robust but over fed police. Intellectually
they are interesting studies. They are
jealous believers in the doctrines of
Lasalle, and use with great ability a vast
store of fact and argument which the
writers of their school have brought to-
gether. 1t may be that poverty compels,
rather than that they do what pfeases
them the most, but, as q matter OF fact,
they devote far more time to reading,
study and discussion than do the mem
bers of any other political organization in
the land Nearly every one of their head
quarters is reading room, where daily,
weekly and monthly publications are
always to be found in plenty. Most OF
the periodicals are in German, the re-
mainder being English and infrequentlV
French Freiheit, Herr Most's organ;
Liberty, published by Tucker, in Boston;
Arbeit, or some other Chicago journal,
and the Volks Zeitung are their favorite
publications.
One of the habitues of the place de-
serves especial notice. A little .Wiry,
wizened up old man, whose age may be
of the tables earnestly talking chemistry
to q circle Of listening admirers His
spectacles seem to intensity the brightness
of his small greenish gray eyes. His hair
is thin and his face, though innocent OF
the razor, shows ut the furthest o little
down which neither the imagination nor
tho barber can convert into beard. This
Is John b. King, the Belfast man. by
trade he is n boss plasterer or moider,
and his lime begrimed clothes and IRON
like hands bear testimony to his daily toll.
In his leisure he 10 q poet, an inventor,
minstrel wit, chemist and, above all, an
anarchistic dynamiter. He has probably
demo more toward familiariZing the masses
with high explosives than Most and Mez-
croft nut together. A large portion OF his
knowledge IS self acquired, his laboratory
having been the kitchen and his IN
structors the books he could buy or pro-
cure from the great libraries, IL mas hot
been an easy task with King.
aThe hardest part of it, said he tothe
writer twas the trouble with landlords
az course every now and then blow my
snlf M don't like to do it, and don't I
vyant IN. Int it has to happen. The 1lrst
time n occurs. small crowd coliects
around the front door of my apartment,
and fell them it is fire cracker lett over
from the Fourth of July. This sauslics
them and they go away. Inc scconu .,iiic s.
Give them the fire cracker again, DntIney
are not satisfied. The third tinc Iasy
conclude M that am either dynaraiter OF
n lunatic, and have to get out the mex. a
day / havs moved twenty times III nse
wears this way alone.
King has o peculiar way OF carrylns
a,.nomite around with him in his pocKels. {
IN one occasion he called upon Broao-
way a la LAWYER. and in the course OF conser-
sation M produced from inside hls CLONES 80
ha.dfuI p 81 percussion caps ana papsr ls.
Containing about half pound OF Tenaroek reno, ss
IN being asked what would inappeh :,9 H. = ar :
noiieeman should happen to strike ,aa. w eA a
plosiyes with his CLUB, ne Iepllsu' s,. ala.
think & IL woald be hard JOB Tor ouf teia-